Rainbow Chicken (JSE:RBO) Debt-to-EBITDA : 0.23 (As of Dec. 2024)

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What is Rainbow Chicken Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Rainbow Chicken's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was R79 Mil. Rainbow Chicken's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was R130 Mil. Rainbow Chicken's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was R912 Mil. Rainbow Chicken's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 0.23.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

JSE:RBO' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.3 Med: 31.52 Max: 80.4
Current: 0.3

During the past 4 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Rainbow Chicken was 80.40. The lowest was 0.30. And the median was 31.52.

JSE:RBO's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked better than
84.04% of 1504 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 2.02 vs JSE:RBO: 0.30

Rainbow Chicken Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

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Rainbow Chicken Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Rainbow Chicken Annual Data

Trend

Jun21

Jun22

Jun23

Jun24

Debt-to-EBITDA

54.09

8.95

80.40

0.59

Rainbow Chicken Semi-Annual Data
	Jun21	Jun22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24
Debt-to-EBITDA	Get a 7-Day Free Trial			N/A	N/A	1.56	0.83	0.23

Competitive Comparison of Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

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Rainbow Chicken Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Rainbow Chicken's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(233.648	+	161.789)	/	666.404
	=	0.59

Rainbow Chicken's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA	=	Total Debt			/	EBITDA
	=	(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation	+	Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation)	/	EBITDA
	=	(79.281	+	130.172)	/	912.012
	=	0.23

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is two times the quarterly (Dec. 2024) EBITDA data.

Rainbow Chicken (JSE:RBO) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

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Rainbow Chicken Business Description

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Address

1 Stanley Methven Road, Hammarsdale, Durban, NL, ZAF, 3701

Website

https://www.rainbowchickens.co.za

Rainbow Chicken Ltd is a fully integrated broiler producing company involved in all stages of chicken production from farm to fork. It is a trusted South African heritage brand that consumers have come to rely on for quality chicken products. Its diverse product offering includes the following product sets: Fresh Chicken, Standard Chicken, Frozen Specialized Chicken, Chilled process meat. It segments includes Chicken, Animal Feed (consisting of Epol and Driehoek), Waste-to-Value (consisting of Matzonox and Matzonox Fertilisers), Group (other immaterial segments). Maximum of revenue is from Chicken Segment.

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